Cuil, the new search engine seems to be a big buzz on internet this week. This is mainly for two reasons: One, they claim to have indexed more web sites than Google and second that it was developed by ex-Google employees. Even with these claims, I feel the search engine poor to Google or other competing search engine. The only stand out being the way they display search results. Here is my experience using cuil. Starting with the name “cuil”, which is pronounced cool, does not sound good... Read Full Story

For those who don’t know, Geronimo is a project from Apache aimed in creating a Java EE 5 application server using open source. It is also certified by Sun for its compatibility with java EE specification. Apache claims the server to be very developer friendly, easy to use and easily integrate with IDEs like Eclipse. All my hopes failed when in installed it on my Vista! Yes, I am a frustrated developer now! My laptop comes with Vista Home and I am simply not able to start the Geronimo server... Read Full Story

Web sites have become quite complex and dynamic in nature these days. They have incorporated features that increase user experience and make browsing enjoyable. With new features come new troubles too. One major and popular threat is "Cross Site Scripting" but security professionals call it XSS. In this article, I will explain what it is and how as a netizen, avoid an attack. So, what is XSS? Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is said to occur when a web site collect malicious data from a user. The... Read Full Story

Big mobile players Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO anounced they are all set to open source the Symbian mobile OS. Nokia will buy 52% of Symbian. This acquisition will be the first step in the establishment of the 'Symbian Foundation'. And Nokia will join two other major platforms; Google's Android operating system and Apple's OS X iPhone. The new foundation will provide unified platform with common UI framework. Initially, they will release selected components as open source... Read Full Story

Libraries like iText,PDFBox are some of the best libraries available for PDF creation and manipulation. But these libraries have its disadvantages. One such disadvantage is templating the PDFs you create. In a enterprise where reports (PDF files) are generated automatically and routed to work-flows or stored in content management repositories. These reports follow an enterprise level style and pattern which can be reused, can change and will require proper management. Hardcoding styles and... Read Full Story

With plenty of open source AJAX libraries out there (and increasing), Google has come up with the idea of host the most popular once. This will developers instant access to AJAX libraries like jQuery, Dojo etc. Web developers ; I would say mostly people who have blogs and wikis hosting on free services like blogger, wordpress etc, will now be able to use these libraries by just loading them using the new API. AJAX Libraries API will simply help you to loading architecture for the most... Read Full Story

I am not sure when it was launched but I just happened to see JavaFX site! One look things are quite impressive, but as you navigate I just lost the impression. I must agree that the effects are great but it was slow at certain point of time. Even made me feel that my browser had hung! But Firefox handled everything smooth. The site do not feature any demo on available widgets but have really good videos and access to preview SDK. Comparing JavaFX to its competitors, Flex and SilverLight are... Read Full Story

Documentum provides a very good framework for web applications called WDK. If you have worked with WDK, I am sure you must have come across the Ajax and webtop examples. When ExtJS 2.1 was released I needed to test it features, and the idea of using Ext in Documentum struck me! Here we will integrate Ext and Documentum in a simple WDK application. We will use WDK widgets to build the regural forms but add Ext Slider widget (not available in WDK) to the form. Integrating or mashups are not... Read Full Story

Google launched its new Data portability platform called Friend Connect. The service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors. This these features enabled on your blog or site you will be able to attract more visitors, add social networking features with no or very less programming. This is Google's next step in social networking. Initially they launched OpenSocial an API for social applications. Then Google... Read Full Story

My week long Websphere training kept me away from mails and I was not so surprised to see a mail from Yahoo with the subject line - "Invitation : SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party 5/15". So, they are ready to launch their new approach to searching. The launch party is at Yahoo HQ on May 15th. Apart from the live demos you will get tasty food & beer. For those who don't know SearchMonkey - Its a new open developer platform that allows developers and site owners to use semantic web standards... Read Full Story